Keynote Speakers - ICCSPA'22

Distinguished Keynote Speakers

The Interplay of Time, Space, and Intelligence through 6G Wireless Connectivity

Machine Learning for Signal and Protocol Classification over Shared Spectrum

Blockchain-enabled IoT systems

End-to-End 5G Prototype: AI-Enabled Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF)

Chip 4.0: Intelligent IoT on Chip

More About Keynote Speakers

Dr. Petar Popovski

Petar Popovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, where he heads the section on Connectivity and a Visiting Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen. He received his Dipl.-Ing and M. Sc. degrees in communication engineering from the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University in 2005. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015), the Danish Elite Researcher award (2016), IEEE Fred W. Ellersick prize (2016), IEEE Stephen O. Rice prize (2018), Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications (2019), the Danish Telecommunication Prize (2020) and Villum Investigator Grant (2021). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS. Prof. Popovski was the General Chair for IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 and IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2019. His research interests are in communication theory and wireless connectivity. He authored the book “Wireless Connectivity: An Intuitive and Fundamental Guide”, published by Wiley in 2020.

Dr. Marwan Krunz

Marwan Krunz is a Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. He holds the Kenneth VonBehren Endowed Professorship in ECE and is also a professor of computer science. He directs the Broadband Wireless Access and Applications Center (BWAC), a multi-university NSF/industry center that focuses on next-generation wireless technologies. He also holds a courtesy appointment as a professor at University Technology Sydney. Previously, he served as the site director for the Connection One center. Dr. Krunz’s research is on resource management, network protocols, and security for wireless systems. He has published more than 300 journal articles and peer-reviewed conference papers, and is a named inventor on 12 patents. His latest h-index is 60. He is an IEEE Fellow, an Arizona Engineering Faculty Fellow, and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2013-2015). He received the NSF CAREER award. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He also served as editor for numerous IEEE journals. He was the TPC chair for INFOCOM’04, SECON’05, WoWMoM’06, and Hot Interconnects 9. He was the general vice-chair for WiOpt 2016 and general co-chair for WiSec’12. Dr. Krunz served as chief scientist for two startup companies that focus on 5G and beyond systems and machine learning for wireless communications.

Dr. Jelena Misic

Jelena Mišić is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson University, Canada. She received her PhD in Computer Engineering from University of Belgrade, Serbia. She is an internationally recognized expert in the area of IoT, blockchain, wireless networking and network security, where she has authored or co-authored four books, 155+ journal papers, 24 book chapters, and 215+ conference papers. She has chaired more than a dozen major international events and guest-edited more than a dozen special issues of various journals. She serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Network, and Ad Hoc Networks journal (published by Elsevier). She is IEEE Fellow, ACM member and serves as IEEE VTS distinguished lecturer.

Dr. Abdallah Shami

Abdallah Shami is the Acting Associate Dean Research and a Professor at the ECE department at Western University, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Shami is the Director of the Optimized Computing and Communications Laboratory at Western University (https://www.eng.uwo.ca/oc2/). Dr. Shami’s research interests are in the area of future networks, network automation and smart systems. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and IEEE Communications Tutorials and Survey. Dr. Shami has chaired key symposia for IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, and IEEE ICNC. He was the elected Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Communications Software (2016-2017) and IEEE London Ontario Section Chair (2016-2018).

Dr. Magdy A. Bayoumi

Dr. Bayoumi has been a faculty member in CACS since 1985. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt; M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis; and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor, Canada. Dr. Bayoumi is the recipient of the 2009 IEEE Circuits and Systems Meritorious Service Award. Dr. Bayoumi is the recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2003 Education Award, and he is an IEEE Fellow. He was on the governor’s commission for developing a comprehensive energy policy for the State of Louisiana. He represented the CAS Society on the IEEE National Committee on Engineering R&D policy, IEEE National Committee on Communication and Information Policy, and IEEE National Committee on Energy Policy. He is also active in the “Renewable & Green Energy” and “Globalization: Technology, Economic and Culture” fields. He was a free lance columnist for Lafayette’s newspaper.

Dr. Bayoumi has graduated more than 44 Ph.D. and about 175 Master’s students. He has published over 300 papers in related journals and conferences. He edited, co-edited and co-authored 5 books in his research interests. He was and has been Guest Editor (or Co-Guest Editor) of eight special issues in VLSI Signal Processing, Learning on Silicon, Multimedia Architecture, Digital and Computational Video, Perception on a Chip, and Systems on a Chip. He has given numerous invited lectures and talks nationally and internationally, and has consulted in industry.

Dr. Bayoumi is the Vice President for Conferences of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society, where he has served in many editorial, administrative, and leadership capacities, including Vice President for Technical Activities. He was Chair and Founder of “Circuits and Systems for Communication” Technical Committee. He was Chair of VLSI Systems and Applications (VSA) Technical Committee (TC). He was General Chair of the Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception, 1993, New Orleans. He was General Chair of the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 1994) (Lafayette), and Co-General Chair of MWSCAS 2003 (Cairo). Dr. Bayoumi served as General Chair of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS 1998), Lafayette, LA; General Chair of the VLSI Signal Processing Systems Workshop (SiPS 2000), Lafayette, LA; General Chair of the International Workshop of Digital and Computational Video (DCV 2002), Clearwater Beach, FL; General Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2004), Lafayette, LA, Chair of the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2003); General Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ( ISCAS 2007); and General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ( ICIP 2009).

He was Associate Editor of the Circuits and Devices Magazine, Transaction on VLSI Systems, Transaction on Neural Networks, and Transaction on Circuits and Systems II. Dr. Bayoumi is Associate Editor of INTEGRATION, VLSI Journal and Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems. He was Associate Editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers. He is Regional Editor for the VLSI Design Journal and on the Advisory Board of the Journal on Microelectronics Systems Integration. Dr. Bayoumi served on the Distinguished Visitors Program for IEEE Computer Society, 1991-1994, and Circuits and Systems Distinguished Program, 1999-2001. Dr. Bayoumi was Chair of the ASSP Technical Committee on Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation. He is Faculty Advisor for the IEEE Computer Student Chapter at UL Lafayette, the winner of the 2002 Outstanding Chapter Award. He won UL Lafayette 1988 Researcher of the Year award and 1993 Distinguished Professor award at UL Lafayette.

Dr. Bayoumi served on the technology panel and advisory board of the U.S. Department of Education project, “Special Education Beyond Year 2010,” 1990-1993. He was Vice President of Acadiana Technology Council. He was on the organizing committee for Acadiana’s 3rd Internet Workshop, 1999. He gave the keynote speech in “Acadiana Y2K Workshop,” 1999, Lafayette. He is a member of Lafayette Chamber of Commerce where he was a member of the Economic Development, Education, and Tourism Committees. Dr. Bayoumi was a technology columnist and writer of the Lafayette newspaper, “The Daily Advertiser”. It won’t be a bigger problem to find one video game lover in your neighbor. Since the introduction of Virtual Game, it has been achieving great heights so far as its popularity and technological advancement are concerned. The history of video game is as interesting as a fairy tale.